Systems and methods comprising one or more data feed mechanisms for improving domain name system traffic management

A system for improving Domain Name System (DNS) traffic management, the system comprising:

• a programmatic interface for ingesting one or more key/value pairs into at least one data table at an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) endpoint or ingestion interface, wherein the programmatic interface examines data values as the data values are ingested and, depending on a key with which the data values are associated, optionally validating or compiling to transmute the data values into normalized form to provide normalized values for use by at least one traffic management algorithm;
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• at least one globally distributed DNS software actor, comprising a DNS traffic management system, connected to the programmatic interface, wherein a minimized representation of changes to apply to the data table is delivered to the at least one globally distributed DNS software actor via a transmission mechanism in near real-time.